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Gemma Joyce

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Nikki Carrero ~ Closed to Queries @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Final stats: Queries: 43 Full requests pre offer: 7 Full requests post offer: 13 R&R: 2 Offers: 2 Rejections: 17 CNR: 13

Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 10mo ago

When your edit becomes a rewrite, and starts ambling off in a direction of its own, like a drunk cat… do you just go with it?

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Seventh full manuscript request yesterday (along with thirteenth rejection). Still no offers. Will I ever make it out of the querying trenches alive? #amquerying

Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#posterpit #A #C #M #Q 4 full manuscript requests and placed in the top 5% of Bridport prize entries 2025, but still looking for agent representation for The Words We Don’t Say!

Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#posterpit #Q #A #C #M #amquerying

Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Four full manuscript requests 🎉 When a lonely postie finds a bag of lost letters, she begins to deliver them, unravelling forgotten stories, unspoken truths & her own buried past. Grief. Shame. Secrets. Redemption. Warmth, wit, and a sapphic love story #QueerPit #A #UP🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Emma Brand YA Author ✍️ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚@emmalbwrites.bsky.social · 12mo ago

So excited for #QueerPit 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ and see all these amazing stories! Heartstopper x Imogen Obviously 🏠queer care home ❤️fake dating 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️queer gang of chaos 💔healing a broken heart 🥰meet cute 🏳️‍🌈 yearning/reuniting lost loves ❤️ 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 found family #CR #YA

Jessie ☀️@parchmints.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Welcome to sunny Whistle Beach, where you’ll experience: 🌊Glistening oceanic views 👻A haunted lighthouse 🐶St. Berdoodles 🚴‍♀️Thrilling bike rides 🔍A mysterious disappearance, and… ☹️The hard life lesson of moving on after loss Book now! #QueerPit #MG #CON #SPF

R.E. is Querying @earthkids.bsky.social · 12mo ago

DANNY PHANTOM x WEDNESDAY Well, Denny Dragan sure messed up this time. He accidentally released a serial killer ghost who drowns people. To make things messier, he needs help from a medium who would rather let people die than help out strangers. #QueerPit #YA #H #F #M

Dannye Chase is writing gay vampires @dannyechase.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#QueerPit Queer romance FOREWARNING ❤️ NB fashion icon prince 🧡 Hunky royal guard who crochets 💛 Forbidden romance but the internet ships it 💚 Psychic powers 💙 Royal murder mystery 💜 Best friends to lovers HEA 54k, on query #CR #F #R #RS #A #SPF 3 agent RQ's ODD THOMAS as an upbeat queer romance

A mood board for Forewarning:

A 3x3 grid of 9 squares

Top L: a photo by Ana M. on Pexels of a woman's hand holding a crystal ball in the woods. The trees are reflected upside down in the ball.

Top center: the words "Prince Cole and Captain Lucas"

Top R: a photo by Tide_trasher_x on Unsplash of the right side of a dark-haired man's face. He wears a broad stripe of glittery rainbow makeup from forehead to chin.

Center L: a photo by Alexander Mass on Pexels of a glittering tiara nestled in dark hair.

Center: a photo by Ray Bilcliff on Pexels of a brown castle on a lake with pink and purple sunset hues

Center R: a photo by Pixabay on Pexels of a royal guard's torso wearing a red and gold uniform, holding an upright sword.

Bottom L: a photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels of two hands clasping in rainbow light

Bottom center: the words "Rumors of close bodyguarding behind palace doors"

Bottom R: a photo by Nadin Sh on Pexels of a blurred woman walking past a gold curtain

A pitch for my novel

Queer Romance FOREWARNING

Prince Cole doesn't know why he psychically sees people's doppelgangers acting out the future, but it does come in handy. Cole's other secret not so much—he's desperately in love with his childhood best friend, royal guardsman Lucas, not least because Luc staunchly supports Cole being an openly nonbinary royal.

Unfortunately, Cole can't marry a guardsman, and sweet, introverted Luc would never want to be a royal spouse anyway. But when a head of state is murdered and Cole's life is threatened, Luc steps in as Cole's 24/7 bodyguard.

Together they must find a legendary weapon of mass destruction that threatens their own lives—and millions more. (And really, it would be easier for Cole to concentrate if his gorgeous bodyguard wasn't wandering around their room half-naked, but whatever. It's fine.)

Comps for Forewarning

FOREWARNING is a bit like if Dean Koontz's ODD THOMAS was an upbeat queer romance. It will appeal to readers who enjoy K.J. Charles's DOOMSDAY series for its queer love story, strong B-plot, spice level, and titled/commoner dynamics; and the sassy tone of Alexis Hall's 10 THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

Details of Forewarning:

Logline: A psychic nonbinary prince trying to solve a royal murder mystery must hide his romantic feelings when his guardsman best friend (and forbidden secret crush) becomes his bodyguard.

Genres: Queer Romance, Low Fantasy, Adult, Contemporary

Length: 54,000 words

Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 12mo ago

* 4 full manuscript requests * When a lonely postie finds a bag of lost letters, she begins to deliver them, unravelling forgotten stories, unspoken truths & her own buried past. 🥺Grief 😳Shame 🤫Secrets ✨Redemption Warmth, wit & a sapphic love story 🌈 #QueerPit #A #UP

Mariah Stillbrook @mariahstillbrook.bsky.social · 12mo ago

It's 1996 & 18 yo Roxy tragically just lost the love of her life. All she wants is to escape her small midwest town, but in a twist of fate, starts working at an antique store where she meets Betsy, a mannequin who will change her life, & the town, forever. #QueerPit #H #A #F #Q

Leo and Jules @breadcrumbs-barrel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

#queerpit #FR #A UNMAKING PERCY Percy grew up being told he is the chosen one, only to discover that he is, in fact, the chosen one's assistant. Now he has to help the actual chosen one, Evans, in the epic quest that should have been rightly his. And try not to fall in love in the process.

Elaina Eiser @elainaeiser.bsky.social · 12mo ago

THE MOON BLEEDS SILVER has all your favorite tropes 👫Found family 🤫Small town, big secrets 🤬Teenage angst 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩Sapphic pining 🐺Wolf shifters 👩‍🦯Chronic illness rep #QueerPit #YA #P #MR

This mood board has a wood panel background. A number of signs hang from the wall. One says Illness in typed print. Second says small town. Third is a picture of a farm. Fourth is a girl and wolf lying together. Underneath it says "big secrets". On the ground is a TV with a grainy picture of a wolf in it.

Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦@adriaan.braevitae.com · 12mo ago

OK, So this book turned out to be basically Doctor Who fanfic, except if the Doctor is a humanoid cat, the companion (who narrates) is a trans woman, and the 'sonic screwdriver' trope is a mech person (NOT an 'AI' - rude to call people 'artificial'!) #QueerPit #A #SF #T #own

Mood board of a snowfield, that cat-alien guy from Dr. Who, Earth's moon and a trans flag.

Credits to NASA, unsplash.com and www.doctorwho.tv

Gemma Joyce @gemmajwrites.bsky.social · 12mo ago

When a lonely postie in a small British town finds a bag of lost letters, she begins to deliver them, unravelling forgotten stories, unspoken truths & her own buried past. 🥺Grief 😳Shame 🤫Secrets ✨Redemption With warmth, wit & a sapphic love story 🌈 #QueerPit #A #UP